When it refers to real life, a Point of View is the “position from which something is viewed”. In story-telling, it translates into “who is telling the story?”Whose viewpoint is it? How much of it is biased because it is only one point of view? How much can a reader believe if it is coming from one ‘position’ only?Let me try and answer these questions.
Author: Reet Singh
Reet is a surgeon with a romantic soul. When not doctoring, she devours romantic fiction, wields a creative crochet hook, or solves the daily crossword. Occasionally, she can be found in the kitchen concocting her 'world-famous' one-pot meals. Married for three decades, her tall, handsome, sensitive hero-husband still makes her heart skip a beat. It's no wonder she writes about love and happy endings.
Meet Ashley and Vivaan from Devika Fernando’s latest release
“The Indian Prince’s Scandalous Bride” is the 4th book in Devika Fernando’s Romancing the Royals series. Here’s a funny scene from the book that you’re sure to enjoy…
Spotlight: ‘We Women Wonder’ by Inderpreet Uppal
“When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg.
Thoughts, quotes and determination can make a woman stronger, a survivor but she is a winner regardless.
This book is the story of every woman, you might find your reflection too.
A journey into what keeps us women ticking.
Cover Reveal – The Indian Prince’s Scandalous Bride by Devika Fernando
“The Indian Prince’s Scandalous Bride” is the 4th book in the Romancing the Royals series, and I can’t wait to share it with you all. Here’s the cover and blurb. The book is due for release next month.
Midpoints that impel the story onwards
This week I’m going to talk about how to write a midpoint that keeps the reader turning the pages.As the word suggests, the midpoint of a story comes right at the center of it.How should it be written?Why should we care?Regardless of what genre we write, the first quarter of the story is invariably where the characters are introduced to the reader and where the events that complicate the main characters’ lives take place.This part is the set-up to the second quarter of the story which highlights how the characters react to the life-altering events (job offer, job loss, tragedy, natural disaster, unexpected inheritance) that beset them.Their reactions drive the story forward – if they don’t react, there will be no story.
Writing Love Scenes
When there’s a romance brewing between two characters in a story, even in genres other than romantic fiction, readers will want the characters to, at the very least, kiss.
When I’m reading, I know that I always want that to happen – and I feel let down when a story with a promising slow-sizzle ends without a physically sensual moment. I’m sure the protagonists feel cheated too.
Spotlight: ‘Someone Exactly Like You’ by Esha Pandey
The Blurb :
A beautiful young girl, drenched in rain, is being chased by a couple of goons along the narrow meandering roads of Landour, Mussoorie, when a swashbuckling stranger comes to her rescue. She faints and on waking up, realizes she is in the company of the ‘bad boy’ of Bollywood—Veer Singh Tomar.
Killing your readers – or, How NOT to write!
Have you heard of the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest?
It has been around since 1982 and it connotes a very intriguing challenge – participants must write an “atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel” and the most atrocious entry wins a prize every year.
Jealous of other authors? Is that a bad thing?
We are at the letter J in our series on “Authors’ Tips – A to Z of Writing” If you’ve read the previous posts on the subject, you’ll recall that the eight of us – Devika Fernando, Preethi Venugopala, Paromita Goswami, Adite Banerjie, Ruchi Singh, Sudesna Ghosh, Saiswaroopa Iyer and I – are blogging on… Continue reading
Spotlight: ‘Remember When’ by Preethi Venugopala
The Blurb :
On the outside, Tara leads a perfect life. A home of her own, a handsome husband, a doting son and a promising career as an author. But inside, she is a wreck. Her marriage is a sham and she hasn’t succeeded in forgetting her one true love, Manu, the man she had wronged. The man she had almost married.
Manu, now the senior editor with a science portal, firmly believes that he has left Tara where she belonged: in his past. But in reality, he hasn’t forgotten anything. Not the love nor the hurt.
Their past and present collide when they accidentally…